Evaluating Sources of Health Information (See p. 14 in your text.)

Guidelines for Evaluating Sources of Health Information

California Medical Association
(select Health Care Links)
( http://www.cmanet.org )

Federal Citizen Information Center
( http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov )

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Consumer Resources
( http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/consumer.htm )

Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Student Resources
( http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/students.html )

Quackwatch
( http://www.quackwatch.com )

Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health
( http://www.health.gov/scipich )

UC Berkeley Library: Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
( http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html )

World Health Organization: Medical Products and the Internet
( http://www.who.int/medicines/library/qsm/who-edm-qsm-99-4/medicines-on-internet-guide.html )

Codes and Sets of Principles

American Medical Association Web Guidelines
( http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1905.html )

Health on the Net Foundation
( http://www.hon.ch )

Internet Healthcare Coalition
( http://www.ihealthcoalition.org )

Information on Internet Health Hoaxes

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Internet Health Related Hoaxes and Rumo...
( http://www.cdc.gov/hoax_rumors.htm )

Hoax Busters
( http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HoaxBustersHome.html )

Quackwatch
( http://www.quackwatch.com )

Health-Specific Search Engines, Directories, and Gateways

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Information A to Z
( http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm )

FirstGov for Consumers: Health
( http://www.consumer.gov/health.htm )

Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
( http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md )

Health on the Net (HON)
( http://www.hon.ch )

Healthfinder
( http://www.healthfinder.gov )

Karolinska Institutet
( http://micf.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html )

Medical Matrix
( http://www.medmatrix.org )

MedWeb
( http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb )

National Library of Medicine: MedlinePlus
( http://www.medlineplus.gov )

National Institutes of Health: Health Information Index
( http://www.nih.gov/health )

Nutrition.Gov
( http://www.nutrition.gov )